Milton Barnes is the head men’s basketball coach of U.S. Virgin Islands national basketball team and American former basketball

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 player for Albion College

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 in Michigan

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 in the NCAA

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, where he scored 1,137 points from 1975-79. He was an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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 in the 1980s under Clem Haskins

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. He later became head coach of Albion, Michigan High School, where he compiled a 65-11 record from 1988 to 1991, including a 26-1 record and a Class B state championship game appearance in his final season. Also, he is the former head coach of Eastern Michigan University

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 and of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters

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. He also coached the NBDL's Greenville Groove

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to a league championship. Barnes and his wife Lyn have three children; sons Andre and Milton Jr. (8) and a daughter Alexis (10). His son Andre is a student-athlete in track and field at Michigan.